Another snow day. Steve had to shovel out to get the train station. Jonah was guilt tripped to get out of bed and help him. The boys are home all day.

Great conversation about 529’s last week. I’ll follow up with a similar post later in the week. Right now, I’m getting back in the swing of blogging, after a weekend off. Here are a few things that I caught:

A great article on 529s at the Atlantic.

Reihan Salam writes, “upper-middle-class people don’t just use their political muscle to keep their taxes low. They also use it to make life more expensive for everyone else.”

“Voters are voting straight-party tickets at the highest level in 100 years. This is a result of several forces that have combined over the past decade: (1) the ideological sorting of the parties; (2) residential sorting, where people tend to live in enclaves of like-minded people…”

Academics could save the humanities by teaching.

Lots of thoughts about Andew Sullivan and his depature from blogging. From Tyler Cowen and Ezra Klein.